Ottawa Carleton Institute for Physics
L’Institut de physique d’Ottawa-Carleton
Spring 2013 Graduate Student Seminars – Afternoon 1
Tuesday April 30, 2013
1:30 PM – 5:20 PM
Loeb Building, room C-264
Carleton University
1:30 Olivier Thériault (PhD, U. Ottawa):
Spectroscopy of quantum dot enhanced multi-junction solar cells
1:50 Conor McFadden (MSc, Carleton U.)
Micrometer scale radiation measurements using Al2O3:C,Mg fluorescent nuclear track detectors
2:10 Nakib Protik (MSc, U. Ottawa)
Manybody quantum dynamics
2:30 David di Valentino (MSc, Carleton U.)
Multivariate analysis and the search for the Higgs boson in the diphoton decay channel
2:50 Yanping Xu (MSc, U. Ottawa)
Static and dynamic sensing using in-line fibre Mach-Zehnder interferometer
3:10 Break with refreshments / Pause avec rafraîchissements
3:40 Farhana Baset (PhD, U. Ottawa)
Femtosecond laser induced ablation of poly-methyl methacrylate
4:00 Kate Whalen (PhD, Carleton U.)
The search for the Higgs boson in the four-lepton decay channel with the ATLAS detector
4:20 Tyler Shendruk (PhD, U. Ottawa)
Depletant-induced polymer collapse
4:40 Michel Lalonde (PhD, Carleton U.)
Quantification of mechanical dyssynchrony using SPECT RNA for the prediction of cardiac resynchronization therapy outcome
5:00 Daniel Charlebois (PhD, U. Ottawa)
Gene expression noise facilitates adaptation and drug resistance independently of mutation
See map at http://www.carleton.ca/campus/ . The Loeb Building is labelled “LA”.
Visitor parking: The closest pay-and-display parking for more than 4 hours is the multi-storey garage near Robertson Hall (P9).